Work samples
About Wednesday
Wednesday Childs is an artist and furniture maker living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2021, during a break from undergraduate studies, she apprenticed with a furniture maker in Baltimore called Kaya Furniture Design. In 2023 Wednesday graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture. Since then she has been an endowed studio fellow at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine. Although wood is currently her primary… more
The Sun Shines Over Our Fear So It Can Be Witnessed
A tapestry made with various acrylic yarns, scraps of clothing, an elastic waistband, a bra strap, a tag from an old shirt, shoelaces, an onion bag, a found photograph, tinsel, ribbon, beads, and buttons, 59in. x 14in. x.5in. (2026)
Between The Serpents And Up The Stairs
A tapestry made with acrylic and wool yarn, found cotton rope, scraps of my old shirts and socks, tinsel, elastic from an old bra, collected buttons and charms, and a found photograph of a child, 62in. x 20in. x .5in. (2025)
"Between The Serpents And Up The Stairs" was a journey of weaving in which I stopped and started multiple times. This weaving traveled with me between three apartments as I moved once out of the apartment I had lived in for five years, and then again, suddenly, after a bus crashed into the building that I was living in. Because of all of the time that I spent with it, this weaving became extremely intertwined with my life and my body and serves as documentation of my life as I worked on it. The title invokes a journey, a theme which is aided by the nature of weaving being a sequential process in which you move up the composition, each piece of weft building on the last. The serpents that the title speaks of block the path as the viewers eye moves up the piece. The viewer must then decide how they will proceed. Will they meet their gaze, or will they skip over them in attempt to avoid an uncomfortable moment with a strange creature. The viewer then encounters a picture of a child climbing a set of stairs that has been woven into the tapestry. This child, who I do not know and have no connection to, is a manifestation of the disconnection I feel with my childhood, both as a trans woman and as a survivor of trauma. This child also serves as foreshadowing of what lies ahead, as beyond this grim reminder of a childhood lost there are two consecutive sets of stairs depicted from two points of view. As a person views this piece and reads this description, they become much more intimately aware of me and my existence. And it is in this moment that I am most vulnerable, and it is in this moment that I ask them how they feel now that I am the subject of their gaze.
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Between The Serpents And Up The Stairsfull weaving
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Between The Serpents And Up The Stairs Detail #1Detail of the top of the weaving
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Between The Serpents And Up The Stairs Detail #2Detail of the upper middle part of the weaving
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Between The Serpents And Up The Stairs Detail #3Detail of the bottom middle of the weaving showing a photo that has been woven into it
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Between The Serpents And Up The Stairs Detail #4detail of the bottom half of the weaving
Shy and Drooling
A display case/wine rack with drawers made of salvaged elm and poplar, reclaimed red and white oak, scraps of sapele and cherry, reclaimed fir from my childhood home, and reclaimed hemlock mushroom board, finished with Polywhey. Hardware fabricated from brass tube and sheet 45in. x 34in. x 20in. (2025)
“Shy and Drooling” is a combination of a display case, cabinet, and bottle rack. It is a piece that both draws attention to itself, but at the same time does not know what to do with that attention once it has it, its front legs turned in showing how timid it really is. This piece, in a similar vein to my other work, examines the underlying power dynamics that dictate how a viewer interacts with objects, paralleling how people interact with each other, and questioning what it means to look at something and what it means to be looked at.
These Organisms Have Been Conquered
"These Organisms Have Been Conquered" is a dining set consisting of four chairs, a table, and a bench, each of which have been carved into biomorphic forms. This carving is meant to create a feeling that the viewer/user is interacting with a living thing, complicating the relationship between viewer and viewed. When looking at/using this dining set the viewer/user becomes acutely aware of the power imbalance between them and the creatures they are sitting on and eating off of. This power imbalance between viewer and viewed parallels the ways in which people view and interact with othered people and their bodies as they go about their lives.
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Hogtie TableTable made with cherry, reclaimed yellow and white pine, and scraps of poplar, maple, white oak, and walnut, finished with Polywhey 40in. x 36in. x 29.5in. (2024)
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Hogtie TableTable made with cherry, reclaimed yellow and white pine, and scraps of poplar, maple, white oak, and walnut, finished with Polywhey 40in. x 36in. x 29.5in. (2024)
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Hogtie TableTable made with cherry, reclaimed yellow and white pine, and scraps of poplar, maple, white oak, and walnut, finished with Polywhey 40in. x 36in. x 29.5in. (2024)
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Bare Bottom ChairsSet of four chairs made with cherry, reclaimed yellow and white pine, and scraps of poplar, maple, and white oak, finished with Polywhey 45in. x 21in. x 18in.
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Bare Bottom ChairsSet of four chairs made with cherry, reclaimed yellow and white pine, and scraps of poplar, maple, and white oak, finished with Polywhey 45in. x 21in. x 18in.
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Bare Bottom ChairsSet of four chairs made with cherry, reclaimed yellow and white pine, and scraps of poplar, maple, and white oak, finished with Polywhey 45in. x 21in. x 18in.
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Grazing BenchA bench made with cherry and scraps of yellow pine, poplar, white oak, and butternut, finished with Polywhey 53in. x 19.5in. x 25in.
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Grazing BenchA bench made with cherry and scraps of yellow pine, poplar, white oak, and butternut, finished with Polywhey 53in. x 19.5in. x 25in.
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Grazing BenchA bench made with cherry and scraps of yellow pine, poplar, white oak, and butternut, finished with Polywhey 53in. x 19.5in. x 25in.
Parent and Child
A set of two tapestries made with acrylic and wool yarn, scraps of my clothes, my torn up bed sheets, ribbon, collected buttons, faux fur, torn up fabric that I screen printed, my grandmothers old towels, and a found bra strap (2020-2023)
Remnants of Impalement
Coffee table made with reclaimed hemlock and white oak and scraps of walnut, poplar, maple, ash, cherry, and ebony, finished with linseed oil, 18.5in. x 57.5in. x 19.5in. (2023)
"Remnants of Impalement" is a table made with the intent of showing the aftermath of a traumatic event rather than the event itself. Suspended in the center of the table top there is a piece of walnut with a jagged hole in the center of it.
Target Practice
A tapestry made with acrylic and wool yarn, scraps of my clothes, my torn up bed sheets, ribbon, my old belt, collected buttons, shoe laces, my grandmothers old towels, an action figure I found on the ground, and my broken roller-skate hardware, 36in. x 16in. x .5in. (2022)
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LOOK AT SOMETHING AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE LOOKED AT
(2020) This zine was made during quarantine at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time I had moved back home to live with my family, and it was during this time that I really began to question the power dynamics at play in viewer and viewed relationships. I sought to create this zine in order to put my feelings about the way we look at people and the way we are looked at into words (and pictures). The drawings in this zine were all done with the trackpad on my laptop, and were quick gestures of the various feelings I associate with being looked at and looking at others. The experience of reading this zine is meant to be an uncomfortable one, as it is accusatory and questioning of the reader/viewer's motives.